University Catalog 2025-2026

Biomedical Engineering (PhD)

Degree Requirements

Biology/Medicine: A two semester sequence covering core aspects of relevant biology and physiology6
Advanced Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering (Grad Biochemistry)
General Physiology I
General Physiology II
Graduate-level statistics3
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
Experimental Statistics for Engineers I
Graduate-level mathematics3
Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists I
Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists II
Engineering6
Select 510-590-level or 700-level BME/BMME courses or other 500/700-level courses from the College of Engineering approved in conjunction with the program advisor and director of graduate programs
Scientific/Technical Electives9
Select a minimum of three 500-level or 700-level courses from College of Engineering, College of Textiles, College of Sciences, or other programs as approved in conjunction with the program advisor and director of graduate programs
Mentored Teaching Experience14
Doctoral Supervised Teaching
Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering (Professional Development for Biomedical Engineers)
Advanced Seminar in Biomedical Engineering (8 semesters of 1 credit each)
Dissertation Research31
Students should take BME 893 before passing their preliminary exam and take BME 895 after passing their preliminary exam.
Doctoral Supervised Research
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Total Hours72

Faculty

Department Chair

  • Paul Dayton

Associate Chairs

  • Lianne Cartee, Associate Chair for Education
  • Shawn Gomez, Associate Chair for Research

Directors

  • Lianne Cartee, Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Matthew Fisher, Director of Graduate Studies

Associate Director

  • Naji Husseini, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies

Distinguished Professors

  • Lianne Cartee, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
  • Paul Dayton, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
  • He (Helen) Huang, Jackson Family Distinguished Professor
  • H. Troy Nagle
  • Roger Narayan
  • Koji Sode, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor

Professors

  • Lianne Cartee
  • Paul A. Dayton
  • Caterina M. Gallippi
  • Shawn Gomez
  • Leaf Huang
  • H. Troy Nagle Jr.
  • Weili Lin
  • J. Michael Ramsey
  • George (Rick) Stouffer

Associate Professors

  • Ashley Brown
  • Yevgeny Brudno
  • Jacqueline Cole
  • Michael Daniele
  • Bob Dennis
  • Kenneth Donnelly
  • Oleg Favorov
  • Matthew Fisher
  • Jason Franz
  • Donald Freytes
  • Michael Gamcsik
  • David Hill
  • Devin Hubbard
  • Naji Husseini
  • Derek Kamper
  • David Lalush
  • Jeffrey Macdonald
  • Scott Magness
  • Matthew Penny
  • Gianmarco Pinton
  • Nitin Sharma
  • Mark Tommerdahl
  • Anka Veleva
  • Bruce Wiggin
  • David Zaharoff

Assistant Professors

  • Amy Adkins
  • Pritha Agarwalla
  • Wen Yih Aw
  • Rahima Benhabbour
  • Joseph Burclaff
  • Melissa Caughey
  • Silvia Ceballos
  • Brian Diekman
  • Alon Greenbaum
  • Michael Jay
  • Kennita Johnson
  • Jinwook Kim
  • Wesley Legant
  • Ming Liu
  • Virginie Papadopoulou
  • Ross Petrella
  • William Polacheck
  • Imran Rizvi
  • Francisco Santibanez
  • Sarah Shelton
  • James Tsuruta

Lecturers

  • Sidhartha Jandhyala
  • Nick Jardine